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Two community banks begun in East Tennessee in the past three decades plan to merge next year to create a combined financial institution with nearly $1 billion in assets.

NEW YORK — After a police officer wasn't indicted in a fatal chokehold caught on video, some officials are reviving calls to entrust such cases to special prosecutors, rather than local district attorneys.

Sexual abuse of children is abuse of society and the human condition as we know it.

The Obama administration paid more than $182 million to Texas-based BCFS to house illegal immigrant children at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas, and Fort Sill Army Base in Oklahoma this summer, documents obtained by Judicial Watch through a Freedom of Information Act request revealed.

WASHINGTON — Old habits die hard. The media are so enamored of the continuing (and largely contrived) story about the great Republican civil war that they fail to appreciate that the real internecine fight is being waged on the other side of the aisle.

Jonathan Gruber, architect of the Affordable Care Act, was recently featured in several videos offering remarks about an important aspect of passing Barack Obama's signature legislation in 2010.

KIMBALL, Tenn. — The Kimball Board of Mayor and Aldermen has opted to purchase $1 million in information, security and privacy insurance to protect the town from issues that could stem from events like computer hacking.

NASHVILLE — Tom Coughlin is proud his Giants finally ended their painful skid by finishing off a big lead.

BARRY COURTER: Lisa, there are only 17 more shopping days until you give me my gifts.

* The Sewanee women's basketball team continued their hot start to the season with a 60-55 win Sunday afternoon at Roanoke College.